January 9, 2012: Watch the Winners

Today, I added 23 more ads from April 1970 plus two Random Pages gallery additions from the Blade, including a Saturday, 4/18/70 "One Viewer's View" by Norman Dresser. There's a review of Apollo 13 coverage along with four other items, "Merv Griffin Show cancelled by Ch. 50," "3 Toledo Youths Featured on TV Series," "J.P. McCarthy Stars in Ch. 2 TV Special" and "Dinah Shore to Star in Daytime TV Show." There's also a Tuesday, 4/21/70 George Zielke story titled, "FCC Approves Use of Coded Patterns." There are six ads from channels 11, 13 and 24 in the News/Special Reports Ads gallery. There's a Tuesday, 4/7/70 ad for The Unsettled Sky on WTOL-TV 11, a Joe Gillis report on the severe weather season, and a Friday, 4/10/70 ad for Storer Broadcasting's The Great Cop Out, a report on drug abuse, on WSPD-TV 13. Next is a Friday, 4/17/70 ad for Project Eleven "The Sergeant" and a Monday, 4/20/70 ad for CBS Reports "Health in America," both on WTOL. There are two more ads for specials on over-population with Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author of "The Population Bomb," a Monday, 4/20/70 ad for The Population Crisis on WDHO-TV 24 and a Friday, 4/24/70 ad for The Population Question on WSPD-TV 13. There are six in the Channel 11 gallery, a Saturday, 4/11/70 ad for The Masters on CBS, a Tuesday, 4/14/70 ad for National Geographic "Holland Against the Sea," also on CBS and a Saturday, 4/18/70 ad for The CBS Children's Hour "Toby." There's also a Tuesday, 4/21/70 ad for the syndicated Echrich Family Hour "The Al Hirt Show," a Saturday, 4/25/70 ad for a Detroit vs. Minnesota baseball game, and a Sunday, 4/26/70 ad for the CBS special, Raquel (Raquel Welch). There's one ad in the Channel 13 gallery, a Saturday, 4/18/70 ad for NBC's MLB Game of the Week featuring the Red Sox vs. the Tigers, a game which was also carried on the Tigers Network on channel 11 in Toledo and channel 2 in Detroit. There's another one in the Channel 13 News gallery, a Tuesday, 4/28/70 ad for their award-winning editorials and traffic safety programming. There are three in the Channel 24 gallery including a Tuesday, 4/7/70 ad for ABC's night of specials, The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians, The Robert Goulet Show and The Academy Awards. There's also a Wednesday, 4/8/70 ad for The Alcoa Hour "Cowboy!" on the Hughes Television Network and a Saturday, 4/25/70 ad for The Tournament of Champions on ABC (Gary Player). There's one channel 30 ad in the NET gallery, a Wednesday, 4/22/70 ad for their coverage of "Earth Day." There are four in the Radio Station Ads gallery, a Monday, 4/13/70 ad for WSPD-AM 1370's Spring Fling Give-Away, a Friday, 4/17/70 ad for a personal appearance by Merle Haggard at the Lucas County Recreation Center and two WTTO-AM 1520 ads, a Tuesday, 4/21/70 ad for a Mother's Day promotion and a Saturday, 4/25/70 ad for Drug Abuse, Like it Is. There's one more in the the Other Vintage ads gallery, a Tuesday, 4/28/70 Blade ad for TV critic Marvin Kitman. More 1970 ads from the online archives of The Toledo Blade are on the way...